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Hawks
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 1:31 pm
by colt41
Can someone tell me if 100sqn hawks are still flying.
thanks
Re: Hawks
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm
by 06L
They haven’t flown all week.
Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
Re: Hawks
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:14 pm
by Fighterfoto
06L wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm
Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
Completely false.
Re: Hawks
Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:25 pm
by David Thompson
The airfield has been NOTAM'ed closed since Monday , 22nd and re-opened again at 09:00 this morning and a single Hawk departed around 09:40 .
The closure could be due to the ongoing UNITE/Babcock strike action involving their staff who work on 100 Squadron ?
Re: Hawks
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 7:07 pm
by FergiZA600
Been told today their won't be any Hawk T.1 flights for a while after yesterdays crash involving a Navy T.1
Re: Hawks
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 9:05 pm
by Nighthawke
Not true - well maybe some truth, but the Reds flew back from Valley today.
Re: Hawks
Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2021 10:20 pm
by bizfreeq
Statement on the Reds official twitter today stating the RAF are now flying their Hawks again
Re: Hawks
Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:00 am
by Agent K
06L wrote: ↑Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:00 pm
They haven’t flown all week.
Pilots are apparently refusing to fly them due to them not being airworthy.
Not the case at all, that is not how you operate and manage aircraft. If they're airworthy, they'll fly them, if not (and that's not been the case at all) they would be grounded by the Engineering authority so they wouldn't be able to fly them anyway. They're a little more professional than a dodgy flying club!
Re: Hawks
Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2021 7:08 pm
by 06L
Agent K, I posted second hand information, which is why I used the word ‘apparently’, as I myself wasn’t certain if it was genuine or not. This time the info actually proved to be wrong.
Nobody else had replied to the original poster at the time, so I decided it was worth saying something, despite that now being incorrect.